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So a long time ago (the mid-1990s), the greatest writer in comics agreed to take over the writing duties for Image Comics' Supreme. He would radically reshape the character, the book, and due to forces beyond his control, a whole comic book universe. And it led to an award-winning run of comics, three additional titles (among several proposed) and ultimately led to the genesis of Moore's much better known America's Best Comics. And then it all went out of print and was forgotten by way too many.

Having gathered quite a bit of information about Moore's Supreme and Awesome runs, I decided to create a home for the forgotten Awesome. Over the course of a year, I put it all together here.

Each week I did a main "Weekly Reading" post that was a read-through of that issue. I followed that up with a couple of other posts about topics from that Weekly Reading or whatever else I came up with to talk about. You'll find the lost Youngbloods in the Youngblood section and the fan-edit of the last Supreme in After Awesome.

Below is the archive of posts broken up by book. Thanks for checking the site out!

Book 1: Supreme: The Story of the Year

Book 1: Judgment Day

Book 3: Supreme: The Return

Book 4: Youngblood

Book 5: Glory

Book 6: After Awesome

Book 7: 1963

Book 8: Night Raven

Book 9: A Small Killing

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Lady Supreme 1-2 and Asylum 10

I'm not going to bother with the individual issues for Lady Supreme, either. Lady Supreme is Probe. At the end of Supreme 40, she has decided to stay on Other Earth and become the hero for that planet. Terry Moore of Strangers in Paradise was lured in to write the series while Craig Wagner and Deodato Studios (Mike Deodato Jr. and his father Deodato Borges) handled the pencils. The issues came out from May-August 1996. 

The series opens with Lady Coffin (gee, I wonder if she's going to be a villain), who runs Coffin Industries by shooting her underlings who don't have good performance reviews. 

 


Lady Supreme decides to intervene (after watching Lady C shoot an underling) and give Coffin a warning that she's watching.


She then flies off and violently stops a back alley robbery before Glory shows up and says Lady S is supposed to be making a better example of herself. 


Lady S asks why she cares and Glory reveals that she is Lady Supreme's mother. 

The second issue introduces a mercenary named Ryder tracking Lady S. for Lady C. He figures out Lady S.'s secret identity but refuses to give it to Lady C.


We see a bit of the reporters introduced in Supreme but they don't get a ton to do more than warn of an impending rain storm that drops fire. Out of the storm comes another super powered woman, Manassa, who demands to face Lady Supreme.

By this point, they realized that the other Moore wrote out Probe/Lady Supreme in issue 41. So, much like with Kid Supreme, they ran the last issue in Asylum, this time in issue 10 in December 1996.


The last issue has the reporters see the terrible results of the fire storm and go see the fight between Manassa and Lady Supreme. After another long and pointless fight, Lady Supreme uses Manassa's sword and kills her, but not before she reveals that Lady C. summoned her to kill Lady S. 


And that's where it ended. It wasn't a good story and Terry Moore never got to write any interesting character moments that he's known for. So, I can't say I was sorry to see it go.